There Ain’t No Sanity Clause (The Damned cover)ĥ. The Bills/Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You (feat. The clincher here though is that the other tracks selected are all great too! If you like a punky edge to your festivities then there are faithful and rather cool takes on The Damned’s ‘ There Ain’t No Sanity Clause’ (get it?) and The Ramones’ classic yuletide ditty ‘Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight).’īrilliant! And a Merry Christmas to you all!ġ. Guns: ANOTHER XMAS IN HELL The Bills/Christmas is the Time to say I Love you. I love this version as it takes the essence of the song keeps that magical beat and runs away with it quite beautifully. The groups lineup consisted of former L.A. The problem with That song though of course its that it’s that iconic that no one ha ever covered it well,until now that is. Guns continued without Guns, bringing in guitarist Stacey Blades, however, following his decision to put Brides of Destruction on hiatus in 2006, Guns formed The Tracii Guns Band.

The greatest X-Mas song of all time is of course Slade’s ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ a stone cold fact that all outside of the US know,(within the US of course Slade are just the band that launched Quiet Riot’s career).

Can I just spoil all that humbug by saying to my complete surprise I really like what L.A.Guns have done here.Īfter the inexplicable ‘voicemail’ opening by William Shatner that has you wondering whether L.A.Guns do actually do seasonal eggnog with captain Kirk down the Rainbow Bar and Grill,and the segue into a short cover of Billy Squier’s ‘ Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You‘ it’s foot to the floor… Let’s face it there have been very few classic Christmas songs and even fewer classic Christmas song collections in the rock arena over the years. PHIL LEWIS & TRACII GUNS ANOTHER XMAS IN HELL new digital EP out 06.12.

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